Michael Zhao graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he produced an in-depth multimedia thesis on electronic waste dumping from the rich world to developing countries. He also made a short documentary on the same topic, available on his personal site. He now works at Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations as a multimedia producer in New York. Michael worked for the New York Times Beijing Bureau as a reporting assistant from 2003-2005. He graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University with a bachelor's degree in English. He co-authored a book on learning Chinese language and culture, Urban Chinese: Mandarin in 21st Century China. Michael was born and grew up in Wuhan, China.
From USA Today (link): For decades, political prisoners held by China have been on the agenda at U.S.-China summit meetings. U.S. presidents raise prominent prisoners’ cases and press for their release in the hope their Chinese counterparts will make a goodwill gesture. Human rights activists say prisoner releases have declined since Hu became China’s leader […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today (link): A seat on the Gold Land Green Town homeowners association offers a chance to weigh in on fees for utilities and garbage pickup, to schedule yoga classes and to set rules for use of the plush clubhouse. Rarest of all, it offers a chance to be a democrat in China. Democracy […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): A year after about 20,000 anti-Japan protesters jammed the streets here, Japanese and Chinese officials are still wrangling over how to repair a damaged Japanese Consulate building ” a reflection of the icy political relations that persist between the two nations. But it is a different story on the economic […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post (link): The Supreme Court yesterday declined to expedite the case of two Chinese Muslims who have been held for four years at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite being cleared of ties to terrorism. The justices, without comment, deferred to a federal appellate court that is scheduled to hear the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Politically, Taiwan’s relationship to Beijing could be characterized primarily as a rift borne of defiance on one side and menacing rebuke on the other. But geologically, the small island of Taiwan appears to be on a collision course with mainland China. Over millions of years, that is. Now an […]
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